Wonderful Book!
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This was my first Karen Moning book to read, and I found it extremely easy to get into. I think it was because it is narrated by the heroine (Mac), who, although initially gets plastered with a "Barbie" stereotype, was just a normal girl who happened to have an undiscovered gift. She also puts in her own bits of humor that keep the story from slipping into too much darkness/unhappiness. I found it nicely suspenseful with twinges of humor and a few nice "steamy" bits, which I hope continue on in the series. I've ordered "Bloodfever", the second in the series, and I can't wait to see how things play out for Mac, Jericho, and the Fae/Human worlds!
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downturn point
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All the other reviewers has dissected this book to death so will not make this review long which might just end up repeating everything everybody else had said. Anyway, here is my little piece...
It seems that K. Moning's Tuatha De series has reached a glitch. Took a nose dive with this book. Well, I think, it gotta happen at some point. And this is it. Guess all great series-es and sagas has them. Hopefully it will pick-up again from here on.
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This ishe 1st KMM Book I've read...
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& it was absolutely not what I thought it would be. I wanted to try something 'different' so I thought I would try a romance novel, this book came up as one of the top romance books on Amazon's list & to be honest I was really dissapointed. There was absolutely NO romance whatsoever. This book is basically a 300-odd page 'intro'. All I got from this book was an insight in to the inner workings of the heroine. If your want from a book is to really 'be' the main character then this book does that but personally,I felt a bit cheated, this promised to be really exciting but it just didn't deliver.
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Great start to a new series
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Darkfever is a hugely enjoyable book with an engaging heroine, MacKayla Lane, who recounts the way in which her life changed irrevocably following a telephone call from Dublin to say that her sister had been murdered. Mac, as the narrator, is looking back to events which happened over a year ago so we occasionally are told things that she didn't know at the time as we follow her travelling from her small town in Georgia to Dublin to try and find out more about Alina's death.
Mac's investigations seem hopeless and yet she perseveres but her attention is soon taken by some very strange events - an odd woman accosting her, a strange vision of a handsome man turning into an evil monster, and some unusual shadows. When Mac meets Jericho Barrons, rich owner of a bookstore right next to a strangely dark and empty part of the city, she is forced to face up to some unwelcome new truths - that Mac has skills as a Sidhe-seer and that her life is in danger.
Mac and Barrons team up in order to search for an ancient book that Alina was pursuing in order to try to defeat the Unseelies who are flooding into Dublin. However Mac is given little information with which to work, Barrons being master of cryptic conversation, and her own mission to find Alina's killer is still important to her.
The writing style of this book is excellent with Mac, as narrator, a very amusing character whose take on the world can be great fun, even as she's facing evil and dark things worse than she's ever considered. Her descriptions of some of the Unseelie are very amusing and yet her sense of fear as her world falls apart is also very well written. Although billed as a romance there's almost no romance in this story but it is clearly the beginning of a series and there are some hints as to the romantic direction into which it will go. The only real drawback of this book is that it doesn't reach any kind of a resolution, it just sets the reader on the path of Darkfever's world and makes the next book obligatory reading. This book feels rather like scene-setting for the major battle which one assumes will come in a future book. It is still, however, a really enjoyable read with some great characters, a light and fresh writing style and an interesting setting in Dublin.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book, www.curledup.com. © Helen Hancox 2007
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I feel a bit cheated
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Having dicovered the Highlander books and enjoyed them so much I thought this would be as good. Sadly mistaken I am afraid.It seems that this has been released before it was finished purely to get a book on the shelves. Why cut it off so quickly? I had to check to make sure I was really at the end of the book. It was like those really annoying TV programmes that have "to be continued" at the end.
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